Tutorials and Classes

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Logistics and Registration

Logistics details, including room locations, are available here.

A registration form is available here. Please note that pre-registration for tutorials and classes is compulsory.

Tutorials and classes are co-located with the International Conference on Biomedical Ontology.


Half-Day Tutorials

Morning sessions are from 9am to 12.30pm. Afternoon sessions are from 1.30pm to 5pm.

July 20: Morning

Fabian Neuhaus (NIST): Formal Methods for Biologists; also offered as part of 2-day class on Spatial Ontology and Qualitative Reasoning

July 20: Afternoon

Mathias Brochhausen (IFOMIS): The Ontology of Paleobiology

July 21: Morning

Colin Batchelor (Royal Society of Chemistry): An Introduction to Chemistry Ontology

July 22: Morning Barry Smith (Buffalo): Introduction to Basic Formal Ontology; also offered as part of 2-day class From Basic Formal Ontology to the Information Artifact Ontology

July 22: Afternoon

Olivier Bodenreider (National Library of Medicine): An Introduction to Biomedical Ontology

Werner Ceusters (Buffalo): Introduction to Referent Tracking: also offered as part of 2-day class From Basic Formal Ontology to the Information Artifact Ontology

July 23: Morning

Natasha Noy (Stanford University) Using WebProtégé and NCBO BioPortal to develop and maintain biomedical ontologies

July 23: Afternoon

David Osumi-Sutherland (Flybase / Gene Ontology Consortium): The OBO-Edit Ontology Developer's Environment: A Practical Introduction


Two-Day Classes

Classes meet from 9am to 5pm, with lunch from 12.30 to 1.30pm.

July 20-21

Randall Dipert and Neil Williams (Buffalo): The Ontology of Events, Powers and Dispositions

Thomas Bittner, Maureen Donnelly and Fabian Neuhaus (Buffalo): Spatial Ontology and Qualitative Reasoning

July 22-23

Werner Ceusters (Buffalo), Alan Ruttenberg (Science Commons) and Barry Smith (Buffalo): From Basic Formal Ontology to the Information Artifact Ontology

David Hershenov (Buffalo): Metaphysical Foundations of Biomedical Ethics